The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 29, 1900, Page 1

g - »A\ £ d VOLUME LXXXVIII-NO. 182. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. s BUSINESS BLOCKINC PARALYZED ~ PLANS FOR | BY REBELS BUTCHERY PR Liberals of Colombia Conger InstructedNot Make Aggressive | {0 Sign the Peking i Campaign. Programme, P;-Pparinsgfie_m?w Siege of Rebuked f_or IE Approval?‘ Buena Ventura With of the Ministers’ Policy ’ a Big Force. ‘ of Vengeance. 1 e : | | DETAILS OF RECENT FIGHTING | DECISIVE ACTION IS NEAR | | Meanwhile the Foundary Dispute Within the Next Ten Days a Stage in Between South American Repub- lics Is Becoming Very Seri Negotiations Will Be Reached Which Will Mean Peace or ! War in China. | T | The Call Dispatch to = CALL BUREAU, WEL TEL, WASHINGTON v. 28 cretary | | ps to prevent Minister r the instruc- nger he will withhold | e his signature from the y approved by the Min- Pekirg or ar which they may pt in and w r will | buke | | eance policy | | It is believed | | with the . bave ment similar representatives in | | wers, e isolation | apparent ! pessim- | | ng of decide as to the outcome ations. The next ten . will probably be SECRETARY HAY SAYS TURKEY’S OUR FRIEND = most important in the whole of the | ese affair, as a decision which will war ot _peage.will-he-reached. t t Britain, Russia, Japan and Wnnc‘z‘L seem in harmony with the desire of the United States to modify the terms of the | Peking agreement relative to the punish- and indemnity and to present de- - INCINERATE HIS - 1e known to-day that American | nsuls have been negotiating with ex- s with the Viceroys of prov- indemnities for the mur- onaries and damages to mis- s. Similar of the Taboga, ate.st this nd Wil fo-operate with the exped ATTEHPTS 10 wn, but siege of the rich state gy The Career of Crime of @ Drink-Crazed t a negotiations have been ted by English Consuls, | < RLIN, Nov An inspired article in M i Utah modification of the punishment of | Is tn China would not in d by considerations of ther by considerations of | diency. Germany never in- | Town. e BCOFIELD, Utah, Nov. 2.—Richard 1e punishment or death of cer- | Smith, a coal miner, beat his wife almost She desires, first of all, that | Into insensibility and struck his three- should demend the punishment | month-old child on the forehead, fractur- ng gulded by the wish | ing the little one's skull. It died before he eight powers act in concert.”” | medical ald arrived. : Militar Wochenblatt, discussing the | A pair of twins somewhat older had rges of crueity Germans in | peen sleeping in the bed. Smith wrapped admits t ain circum- | the bed clothes so tightly about the chil- s prisoners may be dangerous and | dren that they were helpless. Then he aken. saturated the clothes with kerosene and the set fire to them. guilty offic in persons. on na, prisoners must be The German army 11d not be acc paper adds, 4 of crielty without Ayt e e “eh The mother had recovered sufficiently | > . ‘ 2 lering the feets in the iight of con- | by this time to scream for help and neigh- bors arrived just in time to overpower patch received here from Tientsin, | Smith and save the children’s lives, d Monday vember 26, says: “‘The While this was golng on Jacob Kangas, | provisional administration here, in which | o neighbor, was prevented by timely in- Germany, the United Staies, Ruseia, | terterence from killing his wife and three Great Britair, Frar.ce and Japan are r2p- | children. The two men had been drinking resented, decided day unanimously to together. demolish the wall and fill up the ditch e around Tientsin.” FRENCH DEFEAT BOXERS. LONDON, Nov. 2.—The Berlin corre- | nt of the Stsndard says he hears Column of Marines Inflict Heavy Germany has notified the United | Loss on Chinese. ftates of her willingness to waive the de- | mand for the execution of the Chinese of- ficials. PARIS, Nov. 20.—The Havas Agency has recetved the following dispatch from Pe- king, dated vesterday; been effect- is to be The estab- locate the e h Jichment of this line will probat AN ALLEGED SEIZURE. “A French column of marines with ar- ohe ol inhabitants of the so- | tillery attacked on November 21 the vil- 2 R o e Germans Said to Have Conflscated | lage of Talikiotschu, southwest of Pao- e the Cargo of a Chinese Vessel. | ting-Fu. The Boxers abandoned the posi. P o el &% Atelr homis NEW YORK, Nov. Z.—It fs reported | tion after a stout resistance and heavy g by < v o here from Peking that the Germans have | loss. The French had ten wounded, thres g vl e A 0, ey , | boarded a Chinese vessel and demanded | seriously.” foundation for the report that his Govern. | treasure consigned to an English com- pavy at Tientsin, As the boxes of treas- | 2’***”"“*”'**”’. ure had been landed the Germans could | 4 not get them. They then hoisted the Ger- | man fleg on the vessel and confiscated her cargo. . BERLIN, Nov. 22.—A dispatch from Pe- king dated Tuesday, November 27, says a German military official recently ordered" the seizure of the steamer Irene (flying the Chinese flag), as she had on board a cargo of telegraph material, which, it was alleged, was intended for the Chinese. Field Marshal Waldersee, the dispatch adds, was notified and immediately re- scinded the order. ment has fomented trouble in Acre Jares that it has observed a very cor- The dispute with Ecuador, with Bolivia and Uruguay as well, grows rect attitude. MANIAC'S VICIOUS ASSAULT UPON AN ATTENDANT Special Dispatch to The Call. STOCKTON, Nov. 28.—It has just leaked out that an inmate of the State Insane Asylum made a des- perate attempt several nights ago to murder his keeper. That F. (. Thompson, the assaulted attendant, is alive to-day is due to his agility. The patient stood just inside a door and as Thompson came along he struck the attendant with a heavy :t of the fact that the boundary line has never been definitely located. R R PR R RSOSSN Y e TRAITOR AMONG REFORMERS Secretsof Vancouver Branch Revealed to Li Hung Chang. VANCOUVER, Nov. 25.—The Chinese Reform Assoclation of Vancouver, whose ie Kang Yu Wel, now a refugee from x -ised over the discovery of eral months ago Chen Sue Vancouver from New York, 1 i 1o be a prominent mer- on one of the principal ret meetings at the re- CONSENTS TO SU’S RETURN. But the Dowager Empress Prefers to form quarters here.. Hs continusd Remain at Sianfu. metal cuspidor, breaking two bones Thursday v\h(‘n. he uuddP'nU SHANGHAI, Nov. 25.—Advices from in the right hand. The maniac then disag ing fled under threats | g ntu assert that the Empress Dewager | 4 threw a handful of red pepper at e e o e R e of. Phas consented to the return of Emperor Thompson's eves. Fortunately it did not reach the mark. A struggle ensued, the patient being overpow- ered. The assault, according to the in- sane man, had been planned sey. eral weeks previously. Fe says that after blinding and killing the attendant he intended to obtain the keys and make a wholesale de- lvery. @++ 4444444444444 4404 as reporting the doings of the | Kwang Su to Peking, although she will here o representatives of Li | remain at Sianfu. ng. It is rumored from the same sources authentic mews recelved was |that the announcement of the suicide of of & wealthy Chinese here | Yu Hsien, former Governor of the prov- 1ded for the misdeeds of the | ince of Shansi, was correet. especially because the Vancouver | Liu Sha Tang, Governor of the province run was plotting with the reformers. Sus- | of Chekiang, has been dism'ssed on ac- Jicious letters were found on Chen Sue, | count of the Chuchau-Fu massacre. The <ading to the belief that he supplied this | Provinclal Treasurer of Chekiang, Yun irformation, and when threats were made | Tsuy, succeeds him. The latter is a lb- &puinst his life he vanished. cral-minded reformer. AR R S S A AR A S S 'WISHES TRANCE- ~ {LODGE MAY.BE 10 AID BOERS ~ BY MEDIATION lResolution Unani- mously Adopted by General Council of the Se_lne. PARIS, Nov. 2.—The conversation which former President Kruger had with the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Delcasse, yesterday, was confined to the former sounding the latter as to the probable attitude of France in certain eventualities. Mr. Kruger did not press for a definite statement and the conver- | sation lacked preciseness. M. Delcasse let Lll be understood that France had not | changed her attitude since he explained | the Government's position in the Cham- ber of Deputies last March. France will not take the fnitiative in intervention in | South Africa, but will not discourage any other country from so doing. On the con- trary, she will join in such initiative taken | under such conditions as appear to her to merit acquiescence. Mr. Kruger did not intimate what he in- tended to do, but it is believed he will take the official diplomatic step at The Hague. It is not known whether he will ask Hol- land to propose mediation or open other and less clearly defined negotiations, Mr. Kruger to-day drove to the School of Fine Arts to inspect the plaster model of the monument to be erected to the memory of Colonel de Villebois-Mareuil, the French officer who died in South Af- rica fighting for the Boers. He was re- ceived by Colonel de Villebois-Mareuil's brother. A number of artists and literary people and students ware present. Mr, Kruger eulogized Colonel de Villebols- Mareuil and his comrades, whose devoted heroism he sald ‘recalled the chivalrous knights of the middle ages.’" Mr. Kruger then proceeded to view the Pantheon, but was too fatigued to enter. He was heartily checred everywhere along the road. The General Counell of the Seine to-day unanimously adopted a resolution that the French Government should take the imi- tiative in an endeavor to bring about an arbitration of the issues between Great Britain and the Boers. smmp—il—— BERNIER PLANS TO REACH NORTH POLE Expects to Enter the Polar Basin in August and Winter in the Ice. BUFFALO, Nov. 28.—A speclal to the News from Montreal says: Captain Ber- nier of Quebec has galned the support o¢ Sir Clement Markham, president of the Réyal Geographical Society, for his scheme to reach the North Pole and is now in this city making a fements. Captain Bernier's plans contemplate the departure of an expedition from Vancou- ver with a wooden or steel ship and g crew of six sailors and five scientists. Entering the: polar basin in August, a month earlier than Nansen did, the ship would begin o 300 miles further east than Nansen's 1 did. The expedition would winter in the ice. CALL BUREAU, WELLINGTON HO- TEL, WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—Senator | Lodge will in all probability be advanced | to the chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign Relations to fill caused by the death of Senator C. K. Davis. Senators Frye of Maine and Cul- lom of Illinois both outrank the Massa- chusetts Senator on the committee, but Frye, In addition to being President pro | tem, of the Senate, is chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Cullom is chairman of the Committee on In It is generally conceded that Director of the Census Merriam will be one of the foremost aspirants before the Minnesota Legislature for the Senatorial election if | he is not: previously invited to a seat at It would be the irony of fate should Merriam succeed his late political rival 1n Minnesota politics in the Senate. President McKinley was anxious to give his personal friend Merriam a Cab- inet position, or something equally as| good, four years ago, but the stubborn opposition of Senator Davis, because of a the Cabinet table. SUCCESSOR OF SENATOR DAVIS Frge and Cullom, Who Outrank Him, Hold Important Positions. et the terstate and Foreign Commerce. family feud, blocked the way. It is understood ‘would gladly invite Merriam into the Cab- inet when a vacancy occurs, provided the director does not prefer to make a race for the Senate. Former Senator Washburn = of Minneapolis is anxious to return to the Senate, and he will probably be Director that the Merriam’s strongest competitor. @++++ 4444444444444 40 BHPtt 4444440444444 444440044 MADDENED BULL ATTACKS SONOMA RANCHER'S WIFE Special Dispatch to The Call. PETALUMA, Nov. 25.—Mrs. Rob- ert Corda, wife of a prominent rancher of San Antonio, was fright- fully injured last evening by amad- dened bull in her doorvard. Mrs. Corda was about to enter the house when the bull, which had strayed from a herd on the range, caught sight of the red dress she was wearing and attacked her. She was thrown to the ground and badly cut about the face and gored in the right hip. She was being trampled upon by the brute when men, at- tracted by her cries, drove him away and bore the fainting woman into the house. She is now in a pre- carious condition. Had not the ‘men been working close by Mrs, Corda would have been killed. £ 5750 R R R R R vacaney | and Senator | President Pre++4444 444444444444t 4 444444444 JLLLLLL — T0VISITTHE WARSHIP \Turkey’s_Shlfitan May. ~ Be Given Object Lessons, | ol BT 2002 {Arrival of the Kentucky at Smyrna Not for a Hostile Purpose. { o i 3T | OTTOMAN MINISTERS TALE WAR | Believe European Powers Would Not | Permit the United Sfatesto | } Atfack the Domaios of ‘ Abiul Hamid. | Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, WELLINGTON TEL, WASHINGTON, Nov. 2%.—Under instructions from Secretary Long, Cap- tain Chester, commanding the Kentucky, will formally invite the Sultan of Tur- { key to visit the American battleship. It | Is thought that the acceptance of the in- | vitation would give the Sultan an oppor- tunity to form an idea of the formidabie HO- | character of the later warships of the | | American navy. | | The Kentucky -arrived to-day at Smyrna. Partly as a result Ali Ferrouh | | Bey, the Turkish Minister, cailed at the | | State Department. When he left he sala | had been assured that the visit of tha | vessel was not connected with the refusal | of his Government to issue an exequatur to the American Consul at Harpoot, or with the missionary claims controversy. 1t is understood that Secretary Hay in- formed the Minister that the Kentucky's call had no hostile purpose. Cable advices say the Vienna Tageblatt | publishes a dispatch from Constantinople | tothe effect that the Turkish Council of | | Ministers has held a conferemce to de- | termine whether or not the sending of the | United States battleship Kentucky to Bmyrna should be regarded as an act of | hostility. According to the Tageblatt's dispatch one Minister urged the severance of diplomatic relations with the United | States and even went so far as to threaten war unless the Kentucky should be withdrawn from Turkish waters. The Ministers express the bellef that the European powers would not permit the United States to attack Turkey, and that the country, therefore, would be safe in taking a defiant attitude. | The Navy Department has given no further orders to the Kentucky beyond those directing her to proceed to Smyrna for a five days’ stay. The department has | received a letter from €aptain Chester of the Kentucky, mailed from Gibraltar, telling of a storm which the ship passed | through on the Atlantic and the oppor- tunity it afforded of testing the sea-going | qualities of the big battleship. The storm arose on the 30th Inst. and raged that day and the next. The waves tore | away the starboard lfeboat and beat it to pieces. This was the only mishap. | Captain Chester says that throughout the storm the battleship behaved beautifuily | | | =4 and showed excellent seaworthy quali- ties. LEWISTON, Me., Nov. 28.—Senator Frye started for Washington to-day with Mrs. Frye. Asked what his views were {on the present issue with Turkey, the Senator deciared that if strenuous meas- | ures were necessary there would be noth- ing to prevent the war -vessels of the United States from making a trip up the Dardanelles, as the United States is not a party to the European concert touching the guardianship of the Mediterranean gateway of Constantinople, +LONDON, Nov., 20.—“An imperial frade orders the immediate signature of a con- tract for the construction of a fast cruiser by the Cramps of Philadelphia,” says the Constantinople correspondent of the Daily Chronicle. “The price agreed upon will give a sufficient surplus to pay the Amer- ican indemnities. Thus the United States gains an important commercial and dip- lomatic success. CONTRACT SIGNED FOR UNDERGROUND RATLWAY London Line Will Probably Be Com- pleted Before One Now Being Constructed in New York. NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—The World says: Contracts were signed yesterday in Lon- don and ratified in Wall street for the | equipment of the Charing Cross, Euston | and Hampstead Underground Railway | with electricity at a cost of about $20,000,- 000. Americans will furnish all the capital for the enterprise. The contracting parties were Charles T. Yerkes, H. C. Davis, A. U. Houseman and others of New York: J. J. Mitchell of Chi- | cago and the firm of Price & Reeves of ‘Westminster, England, electrical and gen- eral contractors. The contract provides for the excava- tion as well as the electrical equipment of the road and its various off-shoots from Charing Cross to Hampstead, a distance of about seven miles, including the con- tributary lines. This is an advance for rapid transit in London, though . there are two under- ground systems alresdy in cperation. The new road will probab!? be in operation before New York's underground road is comuleted. YOSEMITE 1S LOST IN A TYPHOON Auxiliary Cruiser Is Drive Before Great Gale. Five Seamen Perish and Others After - Heroic Struggle Escape. vt Geeines SHIP SCUTTLED AND ABANDONED Thousands of Dwellings Are Demol- ished on the Island of Guam and Hundreds of Nafives Are Killed. -— Special Dispatch to The Call MANILA, Nov. 25.—The transport Sher- man, which has arrived here, brings news of a terrific typhoon which swept over the island of Guam on November 13, ¢ ishing thousands of dwe! Governor Schroeder’s headquarters mol- The towns of Inorajan and Terraforo were ob- literated: It is estimated that hundreds of natives ware killed. The cocoanut crops for four years have been ruined and the vegetation cf the island killed by salt water. The storm burst with terrific ra- pidity at about 10 o’clock In the morning. The auxillary cruiser Yosemite, which was occupying a berth near the collier Justin, dragged her anchors and was driven aground a hundred yards from the reef. Her bows were crushed in. A launch with a crew of flve men had pre- viousiy left the ship to endeavor to fpd a safe anchorage for the crulser, the indica- tions being the anchors would not hold where she was. The men were not seen after they left the ship, and it is prac- tically certain the heavy sea which the storm kicked up swamped the launch. The bodies of Cockswain F. Swanson and Sea- man George Anhel were recovered after the typhoon subsided. The storm veered around after the Yo- semite grounded, and she was driven off and carried onto Romaye Cliffs, where her rudder and propeller were broken Boatswain Sweeney and twelve of the crew volunteered to take a lifeline ashore, A boat was lowered for, this purpose, bu It was immedlately swamped by a big s that swept over it. All its occupants were carried away from the boat; but they miraculofisly succeeded In reaching lana after hours of struggle with the waves. Meanwhile the Yosemite was drifting hopelessly before the gale, which was blowing at the rate of a hundred miles an hour. A sea anchor had been put out, and this held the Yosemite up into the teeth of the storm and prevented her from fall- ing off into the trough of the sea. She rode to this anchor and drifted rapidly until 6 o'clock in the evening, when the weather cleared. The crulser was then sixty miles north and forty miles west of Guam. She had labored so heavily that she had sprung a leak. After the violence of the storm had sub- sided efforts were made to start the en- gines. At 1:30 p. m., November 15, the Justin, which had started in search of the Yosemite, picked her up and attempted to tow her back to Guam. Two hawsers wera broken, and it was then decided that it was impossible to take her into port. The cruigser was then seuttled, after which she was abandoned, all hands going aboard the Justin. The Yosemite sank bow first at 3 o'clock and the Justin stood away for Guam. Paymaster Ballard saved $58,000 in Mexi- can money from sinking with the ship. WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—The Yosemits was first commissioned April 13, 1308. She had been the station ship at the island of Guam since the days of the Spanish war, She was a sixteen-knot converted cruiser of 6179 tons displacement, and was pro- vided with a main battery of ten five-inch rapid-fire guns and a secondary battery of six six-pounders and two Colt riffes. | She had a complement of eighteen officers and 27 men. Her measurements were 391 feet in length by 48 feet extreme breadth. She had a mean draught of 20 feet 1 inch. Just before the outbreak of the Spanish- | Amerifcan war the vessel was purchased by the Navy Department, fitted as an auxiliary cruiser and rendered effective service as one of the patrol fleet, being manned in part by the Michigan naval militia. Tt is sald her anchorage at Guam was off the harbor of San Luis d'Apra, and that owing to her draft she was obliged to stay six miles off shore. Thae harbor is a particularly dangemous one owing to the existence of a rocky shoal in the middle of a very crooked channel. According to the naval register the Yo- semite was manned by eighteen officers and 267 men, but in her capacity as sta- tion ship not all of these were required, and undoubtedly a part of them were ashore engaged in Cutles at the navy yard. This probably will be true of her commander, Seaton Schroeder, who is alse Governor of Guam, and who probably left the active command of the ship to the ranking lleutenant, Augustus N. Mayer. The old officers accredited to the ship by the register are: Lieutenants—W. E. Saf- ford, Albert Moritz, B. B. Biereo: Ensigns —A. W. Pressy, H. L. Collins, A. T. Mitch- ell and F. T. Evans: Assistant Surgeon E. M. Furlong, Assistant Paymaster P. W. Delano, Chaplamn L. F. Reynolds and eight ‘warrant officers.